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Plot Summary:
Vampires gather together at a remote mansion in the countryside. United, we stand.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
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Best tv shows and movies like The Empire of Dracula (1967):
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The Infernal Coffin (1962)
Plot Summary:
An obscure old dark house horror melodrama from Mexico. Based on the novel "El fistol del diablo" by Manuel Payno.
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Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
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A Woman Possessed (1968)
Plot Summary:
An evil princess who kills her lovers is condemned by the Inquisition. Four centuries later she returns with the help of a vampire and tries to live forever in the body of an identical woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychotronic
Similar in 77%
Dracula: The Original Living Vampire (2022)
Plot Summary:
Detective Amelia Van Helsing is on the desperate hunt for the killer responsible for a string of grisly murders targeting young women. Matters only worsen when all evidence leads to the seemingly untouchable Count Dracula. And when Van Helsing’s girlfriend vanishes, she is forced to question the very existence of monsters in a final showdown with the enigmatic count.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, surprise ending, twist ending
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Forest of the Vampire (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of young friends on a road trip decide to take a hiking trip into a remote forest and stumble upon the lair of a powerful vampire.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
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Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)
Plot Summary:
Mexican horror film about an American painter named Mary (Cristina Ferrare) who is living in Mexico where she sells her works and also kills people for their blood. It turns out Mary is a vampire but not the traditional one with fangs. Since she has no fangs she must stab or slash the throats of her victims but soon she has a new man (David Young) in her life as well as a mysterious man (John Carradine) in black who appears to be doing the same type of murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark drama, surprise ending, neo noir, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, detective, slasher horror
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Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, France, Liechtenstein, Portugal
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic
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Count Dracula (1971)
Plot Summary:
Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Curse of Nostradamus (1961)
Plot Summary:
An aristocratic vampire swears an oath to kill the enemies who killed his father. In order to terrify them even further, he warns each one when he is coming for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Village of the Vampire (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca is searching for her sister, a young journalist who went missing while investigating a series of unfortunate events. The trail leads her to Timere, a remote place far from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, where amidst the tight lipped silence of the town's inhabitants there's an ever growing fear of dark forces at work and no-one dares to leave their home at night. Here Rebecca meets an extravagant writer, the church warden of the town and above all Caleb, a charming, rich and elegant man whose dark gaze hides a chilling secret. It's in this town, where time appears to move between the shadows and danger lurks around every corner that Rebecca learns of the terrible truth and the battle between good and evil begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Baron Brakola (1967)
Plot Summary:
Santo goes up against the vampire Baron Brakola, who has returned to seek vengeance on the descendants of the Knight in the Silver Mask (Santo's colonial era ancestor).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Santo in the Revenge of the Vampire Women (1970)
Plot Summary:
The vampire women of Mexico have awakened to take their revenge on the descendant of the man who destroyed them shortly after they had emigrated to Mexico during the 19th century.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
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Last Rites (1980)
Plot Summary:
A small-town funeral director, doctor and sheriff are vampires who suck blood from the recently not-quite-dead on the embalming table and then immediately kill the newly converted vampire. When one of their victims disappears before being staked, they are threatened with being exposed if the new vampire surfaces.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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The Lively Vampires of Vögel (1975)
Plot Summary:
The town of Vögel, in Transylvania, stands under the ruins of the old castle where the vampire lord tortured his prisoners and drank their blood. A group of stranded entertainers take shelter in the remote European castle and the Count is naturally delighted to receive them….
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)
Plot Summary:
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic
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Dracula Reborn (2015)
Plot Summary:
Horror about three journalists who travel from Vancouver to Transylvania to uncover the true story of Dracula. As they visit the area's historical sites and libraries to decipher the various clues behind the famed vampire's existence, the trio's determination to get their article may end up costing them their lives.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychotronic
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Count Yorga, Vampire (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sixties couples Michael and Donna and Paul and Erica become involved with the intense Count Yorga at a Los Angeles séance, the Count having latterly been involved with Erica's just-dead mother. After taking the Count home, Paul and Erica are waylayed, and next day a listless Erica is diagnosed by their doctor as having lost a lot of blood. When she is later found feasting on the family cat the doctor becomes convinced vampirism is at work, and that its focus is Count Yorga and his large isolated house.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, gothic, classic horror, independent film, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, tension, suspense
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The Stranger (2014)
Plot Summary:
A supernatural thriller, laced by flashbacks, and set in Canada’s North-West, “The Stranger” turns on the mysterious titular figure of Martin, who comes to a small quiet town seeking to kill his wife Ana who suffers from a very dangerous decease that makes her addicted to human blood - just like himself-. However, when he arrives to the town, he discovers that Ana has been dead for a couple of years and decides to commit suicide to definitely eradicate this dangerous decease, but, before he can do it, Martin's brutally attacked by three local thugs led by Caleb, the son of a corrupt police lieutenant, and the incident suddenly starts a snowball that will plunge the community into a bloodbath.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, captivating, suspense, enigmatic, cult horror, epic
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Lips of Blood (1975)
Plot Summary:
Frederick sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four female vampires, to find the castle and the beautiful woman who lives there.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, surreal, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, scary, sexy, mind bending, serious
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Dracula's Widow (1988)
Plot Summary:
Dracula's wife, Vanessa, comes back to life and attacks Raymond who has a waxworks museum, where he displays notorious monsters and murderers.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, neo noir, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, independent film
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The Impaler (2013)
Plot Summary:
Seven high-school friends begin their Euro-trip at the actual castle of Vlad the Impaler where he supposedly sold his soul to the devil over 500 years earlier, but the decrepit castle's past envelopes them in a bloody ritual.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, gothic
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Night of the Devils (1972)
Plot Summary:
Night of the Devils is an Italian vampire thriller with a remarkably good pedigree. The script is based on The Wurdalak, a short story by A.K. Tolstoy. The central character is the patriarch of a wealthy family who fears that he will show up one day in vampire form. Should this happen, he warns his family not to let him back in his house, no matter how much he begs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: gothic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful
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Dracula's Guest (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based upon Bram Stoker's short stories, Dracula's Guest follows the story of two young lovers, Bram and Elizabeth, who are forced by her father, the Admiral Murray, to take a one year probation from their relationship in order to determine whether their love is true. Meanwhile, the Count Dracula is in London searching for a new home and coincidentally, or not, comes across young Elizabeth at the train station after she's run away from home and her father's overbearing ways. Dracula, though, proceeds to kidnap her and take Elizabeth to his castle where he waits for her father's arrival to settle an ancient dispute. Meanwhile, Bram' friend Malcolm sets out to inform Bram of Elizabeth' kidnapping but he soon falls to Dracula's evil ways. And, upon finding his best friend dead Bram sets out across Europe to rescue his true love.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, emotional, suspenseful, suspense, serious, saga, independent film
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Nocturna (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two New Orleans detectives become embroiled in a centuries-long feud between two secretive factions of vampires while investigating a runaway child's case. Torn between their everyday lives and the dangerous lure of immortality, the detectives must race to destroy the evil Moldero clan.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Immortal Kiss: Queen of the Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
Five young men convene on a mansion to meet the mysterious AMINA, who has lured them there to become her new consort in the immortal life of a vampire.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, gothic horror, cult film
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Blood Widow (2020)
Plot Summary:
A modern telling of an ancient genre. A serial killer is terrorizing Arizona with the police in hot pursuit. What the police don't know is that a mysterious group are also pursuing the same killer to stop the killer from unleashing an evil like nothing before. From Vampires to Biblical wrath - everything comes down to one showdown.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, tense, bleak, psychotronic, detective
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Satanic Pandemonium (1975)
Plot Summary:
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, erotic, sexy, sensual, cult classic, queer horror, gothic, disturbing, rough
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Scars of Dracula (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, rough, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious, classic horror, grindhouse, perverse
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Dracula Rising (1993)
Plot Summary:
Witness the romance and tragedy of one man's undying passion that led him to sell his soul. In this epic horror, Vlad Dracula exchanges salvation for immortality so that he may avenge the brutal death of his true love. Now he journeys to the twentieth century to lay claim to the woman he so desperately loves.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: gothic, independent film, cult film
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Dracula 3D (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the count has sinister designs on his wife, Mina, Harker seeks help from vampire slayer Van Helsing.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, gothic, suspense, creepy, period piece
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Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Plot Summary:
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, talky, serious, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic